You Can Choose! with Michael Pritchard provides teachers, librarians, and counselors with a terrific springboard for group discussion, and a powerful enhancement to any character education or life skills curriculum.
You Can Choose! starts children on the path to positive, healthful life choices. This delightful videotape series teaches young people valuable lessons that contribute to self-discipline, good decision-making, high self-esteem, a sense of responsibility, and the ability to get along with others.
Warm, humorous, and highly entertaining, You Can Choose! combines comedy, drama, music, peer-education, and role modeling into a lively format that captivates and challenges young viewers. Each program in the series presents a compelling dramatic skit depicting a problem situation which is very real for children. While the skits are performed by a lovable cast of characters, the problems are ultimately resolved by the children, themselves.
Each volume in the series is approximately 25 minutes in length. A facilitator's guide is included on each video which contains discussion questions, writing assignments, and follow-up activities that support the lesson.
Parents' Choice Award Winner
"The American Federation of Teachers is proud to endorse the series You Can Choose!"
-Albert Shanker, American Federation of Teachers
"We hope that elementary schools will choose to show You Can Choose! to all their students across the country. It would make the world work a little bit better for all of us."
-Peggy Charren, Action for Children's Television
Awards & Reviews
Parents' Choice Award
National Council on Family Relations
CINE Golden Eagle
California Children's Video Award
National Educational Film and Video Festival
What People Are Saying...
"The American Federation of Teachers is proud to endorse the series You Can Choose!"
- Albert Shanker, American Federation of Teachers
"A must for anyone helping youngsters to be happy and contributing members of society."
- Martha Dewing, Children's Video Report
"Fast-paced, challenging and ultimately beneficial to today's children who are sorely lacking in role models, the You Can Choose! series is top-notch educational entertainment for both school and public libraries. Highly recommended."
- Randy Pitman, Video Librarian
"Picking these videos for your kids is a right choice. Each is supportive of family values, fun, profound and not without a point or two for grownups."
- Scott Blakey, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
"Powerful concepts presented with humor and delight."
- Leroy Foster, National Council for Self-Esteem
"We hope that elementary schools will choose to show You Can Choose! to all their students across the country. It would make the world work a little bit better for all of us."
—Peggy Charren, Action for Children's Television
Teaching Guides
Each of our DVDs includes a very useful teaching (facilitator's) guide that provides engaging, thought-provoking discussion questions, writing assignments, and group and individual learning activities that support the lesson. You'll find these guides very helpful for creating lesson plans.
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